Discussion and Conclusion

Below is the discussion of the purpose of the study in the topic “overuse of

mobile gadgets hampers student’s ability to study sleep”.

1. Determine what are the positive and negative impacts of overusing mobile

gadgets in the study habits of students and sleep?

Positive impact

One students said that mobile phone can use to save files to their

assignments from the online information in the internet. Another

respondents said that mobile can help them in improving academic

learning. But when we talk about sleep, one respondents said that if the

students know how to control their self in using mobile phones they can

sleep 8-10 hours. Mobile phones easily promote collaborative and

different types of learning through their wireless connection to the internet.

Their adoption in learning processes by the higher institution management

as student - learning and communication device tools is useful. In the

classroom mobile phones motivate students to be more engaged to the

lesson promoting learner-centered participation. This indicates the

dynamic support that the mobile phone has brought to students‟ learning

practice. According to Barker, Krull, and Mallinson (2006), the impacts of

mobile phone technologies on learning are portability, collaboration and

motivation enhancing students, parents and teachers‟ education system.

 The mobile phone portability enables student learning to

obtaining or retrieving course information through their mobile phones as

they are carried from class to class or wherever. Their portability can

improve a wide variety of learning settings, namely a field trip, the

classroom, or outside the campus (Krull 2006). Collaboration Social

networks such as Facebook and Twitter accessed on students‟ mobile

phones allow students to form groups to distribute and add together their

knowledge, and share information with ease, and this could result in a

more successful collaborative learning.

Negative impact

one respondents said that once a student’s start using mobile phone they

can’t easily set aside their phones. Second respondents said that they are

being distracted by their phones in school. Another respondent’s said that

they don’t have time to study and make assignments and projects

because of mobile phones. That’s why they can’t focus to study well.

According to Mcneal and Hooft (2006) point out that even though cell

phones are popular their use in the learning environment has been met

with some resistance from students and educators mainly based on the

fact that they are “a source of irritation, delinquency and even crime” (Katz

and James E: 2008). Proponents of cell phone use strongly feel that cell

phones are inappropriate tools for learning as they are actually harmful.

Commonly cited negative effects of cell phone use in education include,

chatting and texting when students should be studying. As Cumiskey

(2005) notes, public use of cell phones transforms our roles from social

participants to observer or user. In other words, it’s not just the student

using a cell phone who is affected but also the one who is studying closer

to the user thereby constituting a disturbance to proximate others.

Kawasaki (2006), Jeen -Hynn et al (2008) and Ling‟s (2005) reported how

students who are preoccupied with their mobile phones tend to experience

psychological distrurbances, depression, lower self-esteem and

interpersonal anxiety when they study without their cell phones.

2.Determine what is the most components in mobile phone that affects the

students study habits and sleep?

Based on the conducted survey last February 2017, the most components

of mobile shows that affects the students study habits and sleep. That

implies 27 or 84.375% out of 32 respondents answered the most common

use in mobile phones as a student is “Text messaging”. They are primarily

communicating with people who are already part of their extended social

networking. Thus far, survey data indicate that females are highly active

users of social networking sites (sns) and other communication tools.

Texting, the ability to send short messages to another person, is perhaps

one of the more popular features of modern cell phones. Roughly 94% of

18-34 year-olds’ report that they send or receive text messages using their

mobile phones, and 63% of this age group access the Internet using their

mobile phone (Zickuhr, 2011). There is little question that students‟

communication habits regularly lead them to text while in class. Research

conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 14 to 17

year-olds who text typically send and or receive roughly 60 text messages

a day.

3.Determine the proof that mobile phones affects students study habits

and sleep?

Based on the study majority of the students doesn’t used gadgets for

good, or as a helpful and useful thing. Yet, they used it as a reliever to

their boredom in school. As these table presented may help you the proof

that students are not using their mobile phones in a good way. That’s why

it affects their study and sleep.

Table 1

Shows the proof that students are not using their mobile gadgets in a good

way.

Components respondents percentage Ranking

Text messaging 27 84.375% 1

Making calls 16 50% 6

Selfie on camera 17 53.125% 5

Social media 21 65.625% 3

Gaming 16 50% 6
 Internet 23 71.875% 2

browsing

For self-study 23 71.875% 2

To read info.in 20 62.5% 4

the society

To watch videos 17 53.125% 5

To send emails 15 46.875% 7

To read news 12 37.5% 8

In this table I can say that students used mobile gadgets in school are

more dependent in using their phones.

And it is proof that students are using gadgets in a wrong way, they just used it to

entertain their selves when they got bored especially at school, when they don’t

want to listen to the teacher. It is a proof that gadgets are destruction to the

studies of students. Based on my researched, gadgets influences students in

many aspects, just like what Rewa Kheta said in her blog (2011)” Earlier the

children whom I used to teach were polite and interested towards studies. They

respected their teachers, they had a proper timetable and sufficient time for

sports and games.

In conclusion, overuse of mobile phone will certainly affect student’s study habits

and sleep. Therefore, we should try to put aside our phone when there is

something else we need to focus on at the moment. Boredom does not mean we

should pay lots of attention on mobile phone but try to find an appropriate way to

makes it as useful tool.